Antonio Martorell
Actor · b. 1939 · Santurce, Puerto Rico
Antonio "Toño" Martorell Cardona is a printmaker, painter, draftsman, installation artist, stage and costume designer, writer, illustrator, and teacher. He is one of the most prolific Puerto Rican artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
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Movie6.4DramaRomanceIn 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
La gran fiesta
1986 · 7 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryA poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
Julia, toda en mí
2002 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
This documentary presents the passion, the talents, the history, the struggles, and the local and international triumphs of the most renowned fashion designers in Puerto Rico. The history of garment making in Puerto Rico has marked our history, culture, and traditions forever. The exploitative history, as a labor manual industry, which served as the base for what we have today as a fashion industry is also portrayed.
MovieComedyAn experimental dance company integrated by overweight dancers pay homage to Botero's work in their latest production 'More of you to love.' Omy, the lead dancer, has to deal with his low self-esteem when he's asked to perform nude while being confronted with his faith, when his wife-to-be converts.
Movie5.8DocumentaryDocumentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
- Movie6.0Documentary
The life and work of Puerto Rican painter and print-maker Myrna Báez are explored in this documentary.
Myrna Báez: Los espejos del silencio
1989 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Documentary of Puerto Rico's most infamous fugitive, Toño Bicicleta, and the roles that media manipulation, police corruption, and colonial repression played in the transformation of a common criminal into a folkloric hero.
MovieComedyA movie based on the famous novel "Las Camelias"
Las Camelias
2022
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceFacing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history.
Linda Sara
1995 · 5 votes
MovieDramaComedyAfter the death of her husband, a grieving elderly woman is enlisted by a coterie of gossipy elderly women in her neighborhood to plan and create custom funerals – offering seniors a chance to plan in advance how they want their funerals to be presented, and how they want their lives to be celebrated.